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Monday, September 3, 2012

International NYT: I can do it because I say that I can

International Herald Tribune

Op-Ed Columnist

Rosie Ruiz Republicans

By
PAUL KRUGMAN

Remember Rosie Ruiz? In 1980 she was the first woman to cross the finish
line at the Boston Marathon — except it turned out that she hadn’t
actually run most of the race, that she sneaked onto the course around a
mile from the end. Ever since, she has symbolized a particular kind of
fraud, in which people claim credit for achieving things they have not,
in fact, achieved.